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and counting, rond evidently reads it as proof of the cavalier attitude of Florida Democratic voters in general and probably (so far as I can understand her cryptic and sarcastic commentary on this incident) of just another illegal vote cast for Gore.
An opposing interpretation is that this anecdote may have reported a laudable civics lesson in the voting process by parents who merely wanted to demonstrate to a future voter how to handle the tricky mechanics of casting a vote in that Florida county where a handoperated stylus, in principle, punches out a small paper circle in the ballot.
To imply that this fifth grade teacher might likely be a “fifth rate” teacher is just mean-spirited.
The reply of the Pendergasts to Bird’s original opinion piece, also partisan but less stridently so, does recognize that Bird has a point and rightly stresses
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